Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 5

Marine Technology Society Journal Deep Ocean Frontiers Issue EXPLORING EUROPA’S OCEAN: A CHALLENGE FOR MARINE TECHNOLOGY OF THIS CENTURY

The Galileo spacecraft has sent back tantalizing image data hinting at a vast ocean beneath a thick ice crust on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons which is about the size of our moon. NASA plans to establish definitively whether this ocean exists with the Europa Orbiter mission to be launched in 2003. Should the Europa ocean be a reality, and this looks quite likely, it will mean that another plan...

Editorial Volume 5, Issue 2

Our Journal's tendency towards the real world in applied linguistics and literary studies should have significant epistemological and methodological consequences in researching the fields. The interest in the real world makes the problems we may have in our everyday lives our 'points of departure' in research. According to my experience of research in our universities throughout their history, ...

Special Issue on Marine Toxins

The special issue on Marine Toxins of the Open Access journal Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs/) presents twenty four contributions which were received from distinguished investigators currently working in Canada, China, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, and the United States. The reviews and re...

Abstracts in Persian: Volume 5, Issue 2

Special Issue on Neoproterozoic–Paleozoic Ocean Chemistry

This special issue is based on a theme session convened at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America held in Denver, Colorado, in October 2004. The theme session brought together a diverse group of scientists interested in the chemistry of Precambrian and Paleozoic oceans and its role in climatic and evolutionary events. The contributors to this issue make use of a wide range of i...